My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the movie.

I believe every day when I wake up and go to bed and during my dreaming time there's some moment of truth that's in front of me that will always be in front of me until the end of days.

But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.